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Damien Esterhuizen 8/11/2023 9:24 AMWas fun taking part in this and doing my part for the planet -
Michael O'Neil 8/10/2023 10:18 AMInteresting poll results that for once are a bit hopeful: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/09/what-the-data-says-about-americans-views-of-climate-change/ -
Michael O'Neil 8/08/2023 5:45 PMClimate dads FTW: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-08-04/the-climate-dads-have-arrived#xj4y7vzkg -
Michael O'Neil 8/07/2023 10:26 AMNo, it's not just you - cars have been getting bigger every year - here is an interesting article about that development, why it's going on, and what communities can do about it: https://theconversation.com/ever-larger-cars-and-trucks-are-causing-a-safety-crisis-on-us-streets-heres-how-communities-can-fight-back-206382 -
Michael O'Neil 8/06/2023 2:43 PMGood reminder that a lot of the change that needs to be made is happening with real people in groups like this making personal commitments to make a difference in their local communities - The EPA's ambitious plan to cut auto emissions to slow climate change runs into skepticism (msn.com) -
Michael O'Neil 8/05/2023 9:18 PMGreat, very brief, very practical article about how to learn about climate change and get involved: What to do to help fight current climate crisis | News, Sports, Jobs - Maui News
Great for those who - like me and everyone else I know - can feel overwhelmed. -
Michael O'Neil 8/04/2023 8:44 AMSimilar tone to the poem Michelle shared below: NYT piece by Elizabeth Rush https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/opinion/climate-change-future-normal.html
"Everywhere I turn these days, I read about the new normal. The killing heat, the devastating floods, the toxic smoke. Rapidly proliferating pests like the emerald ash borer destroying our ash trees and the woolly adelgid killing our hemlocks. All now normal. That word — so cloying and deceptive in its suggestion that no more change is coming — steals from us the possibility of being transformed.Last year, through the long summer drought, we watered our beech. Sometimes we invented songs and used our voices to lift them up into its bright blowing branches. This year we planted more snowdrops and bluebells because they often grow beneath beech in ancient woodlands. It is far too easy to accept the beech’s untimely end as inevitable, to become immobilized by a kind of anticipatory despair. What is more difficult and more necessary is to continue to live alongside it, with attention and care, together, now." -
Michael O'Neil 8/03/2023 2:13 PMPolitics aside, interesting/concerning statistics about what people are concerned about, including climate change: https://www.npr.org/2023/08/03/1191678009/climate-change-republicans-economy-natural-disasters-biden-trump-poll -
Michael O'Neil 8/02/2023 10:39 AMGood news source for developments in clean energy, with ways to contribute locally: https://www.citizen.org/topic/climate-energy/ -
Michael O'Neil 8/02/2023 10:31 AMRecycle your old electronics! Here is some info about e-cycling in Oregon, with a link to find recycling centers nearby. https://www.oregon.gov/deq/ecycles/pages/default.aspx